25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2025
13. Jon Moxley Kidnaps The Rock & Roll Express
It took a long time for The Deathriders storyline to mature into something that could be difference-making for All Elite Wrestling, and debate will continue to rage thanks to the brilliance that was Hangman Page's crowning as AEW World Champion at All In: Texas.
Primarily, was all that worth all of this?
In his bid to rebuild the company in his own image, Jon Moxley set about unleashing acts of aggression upon all the people he deemed responsible for its decline. Using the organisation as a babyface institution was as flawed as many of Moxley's own miserable methods, but never did the concept feel as dead as it did when the World Champion kidnapped The Rock & Roll Express to anger Rated-FTR.
What was Jon Moxley? Was he the ass-kicking hard lad that the likes of Marina Shafir and Wheeler Yuta could follow into war? Was he the biggest stooge of them all masking his insecurity with authoritarian leadership? Or was he, based on this and other incidents like it, a curious little petty criminal with actions that fell apart underneath actual pro wrestling-based scrutiny?
The lack of reaction to Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson's plight was unsurprising but damning, as was the match this nonsense was supposed to be selling.